Bio

George Murray’s eight books of poetry include QUICK (ECW, 2017), Diversion (2015), Whiteout (2012), Glimpse: Selected Aphorisms (2010), The Rush to Here (Nightwood, 2007), The Hunter (McClelland & Stewart, 2003). His first book for children, Wow Wow and Haw Haw (Breakwater) was published in the spring of 2014. He has been widely anthologized and has published poems and fiction in journals and magazines in Canada, the United States, Australia, and Europe. He is a former poetry editor for the Literary Review of Canada and has been a contributing editor for several journals, including Canadian Notes & Queries, Maisonneuve, and The Drunken Boat. He regularly reviews poetry and fiction for the Globe and Mail. He has won or been shortlisted for several awards, and he has been on the part time faculty at University of Toronto, New School University, and Humber College. From 2003 to 2011, he was the editor and operator of the popular literary website Bookninja.com. He has lived in St. John’s, Newfoundland, since 2006 and was made the poet laureate there in 2014. He is currently the editor of NewPoetry.ca.

George,
This is a rather odd question but what the hell. Were you gassing up a white mini-van at the Petro Can, corner of Old Sambro and Herring Cove Roads mid-March-ish 2008? Sorry to trouble you but I couldn’t help asking. It might’ve even been 2009.

Thanks for the kind words! No, I don’t think that was me. I come to Halifax about once a year or so, except when passing through the airport. The place is too exciting for me, what with all the criminals and poodles… 🙂